Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many fixed penalty notices have been issued to people under the age of 18 for possessing a firework in a public place, in each year since 2017.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of Penalty Notice for Disorders (PND), for various offences including the offence “DA15 Possession by a person under 18 of adult firework”, for the years 2011 to 2021 in the Out of Court Disposals data tool 2021.

Penalty notices for disorder should no longer be available for persons aged under 18 such from 8 April 2013. A pilot scheme was implemented from early November 2014 in Leicestershire and Staffordshire police forces and from late November in West Yorkshire to reduce the types of out of court disposals available for adult offenders. In the pilot areas, the only out of court disposals available are community resolutions and conditional cautions.